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| 14 x 14 foot room, too small for Magnepan MMGs? Duke raises a good point; dealing w/square room will dramatically affect the sound. You might look at the acoustics forum and/or sights such as rives.com and realtraps.com. I'm no expert, but guess that some type of bass traps will help a lot in t... | |
| I'm thinking of getting into tubes, what do you Gfloyd53,Just got caught up on this thread. Sorry to have left you hanging. I think the break-in was the key to your initial issues. From your comment about jumpers, it sounds like the speakers are bi-wirable. I'd post a question in speaker forum ... | |
| Best integrated under $1500 with Phono Baranyi,The Berning is all that & more. It is definitely better with a preamp, but still better than most other things running direct. Buying the Berning now, and waiting on a preamp might be the ticket for you. I didn't have the Berning until... | |
| Best integrated under $1500 with Phono Baranyi,Your comments make sense. I can relate, as I was an owner of the 4.5s with BAT vk60 & vk5i a few years ago. Now I use a Berning. It is certainly better than the BAT to my ears, but it should be at double the price. (Not to mention the ... | |
| Tuner recommendations John is offering good advice. Analog tuners are the way to go. For under $200, you can get nice Sansui or Luxman tuners that will crush most $800-900 new digital tuners in sound quality. Believe it or not, but Ebay is the place to get the best dea... | |
| The Best Live album :-)Spencer | |
| Best integrated under $1500 with Phono Baranyi,Sounds like your budget has dropped since you originally inquired about amps & preamps to drive the 4.5s.It probably isn't what you want to hear, but IMHO you won't be fully taking advantage of your investment in the 4.5s with any inte... | |
| Your favorite recent discovery Vegasears,If you don't have The Trinity Sessions get it. It's killer. Recorded live in a church w/awesome acoustics. Cheers, Spencer | |
| Review: Emm Labs DCC2 DA converter Tim,This sounds like a great piece. Look forward to hearing it myself. I was going to put the Capitole on my long time wish list, but now I'll have to wait on that. I see that you no longer have a vinyl system. Was this dac the driver behind getti... | |
| O.K. Fess Up. Come Clean. Sing Like A Canary. Funny, When I talked w/Sal the gist of the message was, "Try it and I'll refund if it doesn't work out". He didn't have any experience w/the Nottingham design, and sounded far to busy to be messing w/spacers etc. for me. Certainly nice guy, just r... | |
| Avalon, Vandersteen... which to move to? Linkster,Have no idea why you think I'm generalizing based on older Avalons. I've heard the Ascendant, and am talking about what I heard from demoing them at one of the top Avalon dealers in the country. I agree with you that it's better than the ... | |
| What's the most anolog sounding CDP Well nobody has mentioned it yet, so I'll put in a word of encouragement for the Metronome CD2V. In my older system that included Cary amp & pre, it beat a Cary CDP- 306/200 at a fraction of the price. They were close, but the CD2V has a more ... | |
| O.K. Fess Up. Come Clean. Sing Like A Canary. Buscis2,Can you provide any more info on the new smaller Lift. I checked expressimoaudio.com, and saw only the older lift in the 2 finishes. That didn't work with my Nottingham Spacedeck. Couldn't get it to fit in the small space between platter a... | |
| I could use some jazz mentoring. David,If you like Art Pepper, Acoustic Sounds had(has?) great sounding test pressings for around $10. I bought the LP "Eleven"; it sounds amazing. And the plain white label scares and confuses my friends...just a side benefit. Cheers, Spencer | |
| Your favorite recent discovery The Thrills, My Morning Jacket, Flaming Lips-Okay this one has been a year or so, but I finally got it on vinyl...Cheers, Spencer |